Range of services

From technology consulting and management of workpackages, ALTEN offers different service levels to provide the best response to clients’ needs

Client benefits

In general, outsourcing allows an industrial company to:

control internal R&D costs, as internal teams can be scaled to suit recurrent demands for project management work;

manage sudden swings in workforce needs during peak workloads;

concentrate on product strategy, or on design and implementation of the associated specifications and project management, with ALTEN identifying and recruiting the necessary engineers;

improve productivity using project management methodologies developed by ALTEN.

The Consulting offering

The Consulting offering means going on-site at a client’s own premises to carry out a project, with a commitment of resources.

Charging is on a time-spent basis and the project is supervised by an ALTEN manager. Consulting can work in a wide range of fields, depending on the phase of the development cycle where the client has a specific need. Actions in all these areas are carried out by highly qualified ALTEN engineers.

Workpackages management

In 2012 the Workpackage offering made up 49% of ALTEN’s business. This is set to rise to 70% in 2014. This policy has been accelerated by two factors, the streamlining of supplier listings, which is driving increased use of embedded engineering suppliers who act as true technology partners, and clients’ search for productivity gains which […]

ALTEN confirms its expertise in project management with its Level 3 Capability Maturity Model & Integration (CMMI) evaluation. The group currently realises nearly 50% of its projects in work package mode.

A company of top-class engineers Bound to its clients by its increasing levels of commitment to projects, aLten has made developing its human capital a priority and a key factor in its success. the group has invested heavily to identify, capture, develop and promote the best talents in the market. ALTEN’s technical operational teams are […]

Customised development of IT systems, for information systems departments in industry, telecoms and the service sector.

ALTEN, the European leader in engineering and technology consulting, provides support for its clients’ development strategies in the fields of innovation, R&D and it systems.

Its 21,300 top engineers carry out studies and conception projects for the technical and information systems divisions of large corporate clients in the industrial, telecommunications and services sectors.

During the last twenty years, R & D investments have helped to meet the challenges now facing the industry: performance, security, productivity gains, regulations, quality, internationalisation, telematics, remediation and hybridisation.

In a sector under pressure, where the strategies of manufacturers vary significantly from one region to the next, product offering has been extended and segmented at the same time.
More than 2,000 ALTEN consultants are actively employed in our subsidiaries in France and abroad on projects for the largest European manufacturers and OEMs.

Rapid urbanisation and the rise of environmental concerns have made rail a dynamic sector. Traffic is set to grow by around 5% annually and the global market should increase by an average of 2.6% annually between now and 2017.

In France, the world’s third-biggest rail market after China and Germany, upcoming programmes mean activity should be robust for several years to come. international prospects are also opening up. Rail-related exports are set to double by 2020.

The issue of energy mix lies at the core of industrial strategy. Reducing the share of nuclear power requires the development of alternative energies, which, although promising (tidal power, offshore wind) have not settled into an acceptable economic model on a large-scale.

Study and design projects are particularly varied, and have enabled ALTEN to deploy its product and services in upkeep and maintenance, equipment design, management of major programmes, or the deployment of cross-functional skills (IS, Telecom) for the intelligent distribution of energy (Smart grids).

Technological challenges The health industry is increasingly using connected objects (IoT) and analysis software (big data) to optimise the effectiveness of medical diagnosis and treatments. Meanwhile, pharmaceutical laboratories continue to invest in R&D and the production of new drugs to fight against generic drugs. Digitisation of the health sector: IoT and software fast expanding 2016 was particularly significant for the e-health sector. According to the 2016 report of the business consulting firm, Grand View Research, the global […]

ALTEN’s three areas of expertise (Consultancy and Technologies, Telecommunications Networks, Information Systems) allow it to interface naturally with technical and information system departments in the manufacturing industry.

These skills also enable it to deploy its services in other areas, such as service and distribution (information systems, development of web and mobile interfaces), industrial equipment and processing industries.

After several years of crises of various kinds (financial crisis, sovereign debt…), financial institutions have entered a phase of winback.

Stress tests showed that banks could resist a significant downturn in the economy, and many IT projects are now promoted by major French banks to increase operational efficiency and manage risks and customer relations, thereby opening up significant prospects for ALTEN’s growth.

The telecommunications sector is going through through a period of deep-seated change, due to new entrants (Over-the-top, MVNOs…) and the explosion of data traffic requiring high speed broadband networks.

Major opportunities to develop have opened up for Alten, linked to the new technical challenges in the sector.

These include the development of further high-speed networks that use 4g and its Lte standard for mobile and fibre optic for fixed line. other emerging issues in the sector are mobile apps, connected tV, social networks and the challenge of providing continuous Qos, definedmainly as speed, availability and network coverage.

The aeronautics sector was one of the key drivers for the world economy in 2012. The longer-term prospects of the sector are encouraging: passenger traffic is set to grow by 150% in the next twenty years and the current global aircraft fleet should more than double in the same time.

The big issue for the industry is how to meet orders on time, creating pressure throughout the chain from equipment suppliers to engineers. In this environment, ALTEN expects its business in this sector to grow consistently faster than the group average as the main clients commission major volumes of long-term studies.